The Supreme Court on Friday picked the last scheduled day this term for hearings – April 25 – to hear lawyers argue the validity of President Trump’s plan to deny future entry to the U.S. of tens of millions of foreign nationals from six Muslim-majority nations. The April argument list issued Friday morning still left… Read More

Ten elected Republican legislators, state and federal, in Pennsylvania asked a federal court on Thursday to issue an immediate order barring the use of a new districting map drawn by the state Supreme Court in this year’s election of 18 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The claim of a violation of the federal… Read More

Arguing that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unconstitutionally seized the power to draw new congressional districts away from the state legislature, the two top Republican lawmakers in the state returned to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday night with a plea to block the judge-drawn map.   The new request was filed 16 days after a similar plea… Read More

The Supreme Court on Tuesday chose to put off until Friday at the earliest its reaction to the Trump Administration appeal seeking approval for its plan to end the “DACA” program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation.   The case, involving the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” program, is now scheduled for discussion at a… Read More

Claiming full authority to do so, a deeply divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court drew up and released on Monday its own new map of congressional election districts – one that experts calculated would give Democratic candidates a realistic chance of picking up three or more seats than they have been able to win in the past… Read More

On Friday evening, the Supreme Court closed up shop for the holiday weekend without doing anything about DACA – that is, the Trump Administration’s appeal seeking review of its decision to shut down the program of “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.”  That program, in effect for well over five years, has allowed nearly 800,000 young… Read More

Using President Trump’s own words against him, a federal appeals court on Thursday added a second legal defeat for the White House’s latest attempt to bar the entry into the U.S. of people from six Muslim-majority nations.  A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the President’s purpose in issuing the… Read More

Just days before the Supreme Court is to consider getting involved in the deepening controversy over the legal fate of nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants who have grown up in this country, a second federal judge has ordered the Trump Administration not to end next month their protection against deportation.   In a 55-page ruling Tuesday, U.S. District… Read More

Pennsylvania Governor Thomas W. Wolf told the state’s Supreme Court on Tuesday that a new Republican-drawn map of election districts for the 18-member Pennsylvania delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives does not satisfy the mandate of the state court to avoid partisan gerrymandering.  Like the 2011 map that the state’s highest court struck down… Read More

Continuing to work through a series of disputes on “partisan gerrymandering,” the Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to add a third case to its review of that issue in the current term.  Over two Justices’ dissents, the Court refused to put on a fast track a case testing the constitutionality of a North Carolina congressional… Read More